11 Reasons Why I Am Not a Amillennialist
By John MacArthur
1. Amillennialist employ a historical grammatical hermeneutic but when they get to prophetic sections they substitute some other hermeneutic. In essence, they have a double hermeneutic.
2. They often eliminate a future for ethnic Israel.
3. They often confuse national Israel with the Church.
4. They often deny God’s promise to restore God’s people to the land even though the Abrahamic Covenant was unconditional and unilateral.
5. They deny Christ’s Davidic kingdom as promised in the Old Testament (see 2 Sam. 7; Psalm 89).
6. They believe wrongly that Satan is presently bound (in the Church age; See Rev 20:2; 1 Peter 5:8).
7. They artificially impose “continuity” on Scripture and do not allow ample room for “discontinuity.”
Our Covenantal friends build their system on three covenants that are not found in the Bible: The covenant of redemption; The covenant of grace; and the covenant of works. As an aside John MacArthur does see a covenant of redemption in Scripture (note his sermon on Titus 1).
